Ryan Leaf pays mortgage for furloughed park ranger after wife's appeal during shutdown

The plight of one furloughed federal government worker's family recently got the attention of former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf.

Taylor Futch, a Gatlinburg, Tennessee, mother of two, first made news with a pre-Christmas tweet about the hardships of the partial government shutdown. The tweet went viral, liked some 58,000 times.

“My husband is a Park Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and he had to sign his furlough papers,” it read. “We have a 4 yr (sic) old and a 4 month old, and we don't know when his next check will come. Mortgage is due, Christmas 2 days away. #ShutdownStories.”

In response, she received hundreds of tweets, a lot of thoughts and prayers, a couple packs of diapers in the mail and a few offers of money.

This included a check covering their January mortgage from Leaf, who saw her original tweet and reached out to her.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/ryan-leaf-pays-mortgage-for-furloughed-park-ranger-after-wifes-appeal-during-shutdown/ar-BBS50fD?li=BBnba9I

Good for him.